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A -- INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEM (IDAS). SOL VLM5997akr DUE 060397 POC Points of Contact: Virginia L. Miller -- Subcontract Administrator, 423/576-4814; Sonny Rogers -- Section Supervisor, 423/576-1434. WEB: Internet Homepage Address for LMES Procurement Division, http://www.ornl.gov/procurement. E-MAIL: click here to contact the Subcontract Administrator, Virginia Miller, via E-mail., vh5@ornl.gov. Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc (LMES), acting under its Prime Contract with the United States Department of Energy (DOE) facilitates procurements on behalf of Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation (LMER), whom manages the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the DOE, operating under its Prime Contract with the DOE, by virtue of a Memorandum of Understanding effective January 1, 1996, between LMES and LMER. Under an interagency agreement, ORNL is assisting the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) with the technical management of the Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure Deployment Analysis System (IDAS) initiative. The intent of this notice is to seek expressions of interest and expertise from outside of ORNL to ensure the successful and timely completion of all identified research and development (R&D) activities. The contractor will develop and test IDAS, envisioned as a sketch-planning analysis capability to support near-term intelligent transportation infrastructure deployment analysis and evaluation. IDAS is being developed for use by Regional and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in support of their deployment of Intellectual Transportation Systems (ITS) services both on existing transportation infrastructure and emerging intelligent transportation infrastructure. The system will provide capabilities to 1) specify transportation infrastructure improvements including intelligent transportation systems in transportation planning networks, 2) analyze the impacts of transportation infrastructure improvement alternatives, 3) provide life-cycle cost estimates, and 4) compare the results of alternative ITS deployment scenarios -- as alternatives to and/or enhancements of traditional highway and transit infrastructure investment options. IDAS will be developed in stages ('system builds'). At each build a defined level of system functionality will be delivered which can be tested. Each build incrementally adds functions until the final build which constitutes the entire system. It is estimated that the contractor will develop two builds of the system under the proposed effort. The contractor will perform a review of relevant literature; determine the capabilities required and constraints associated with IDAS and develop a set of detailed and tractable functional and technical requirements; develop system design and interfaces; develop two builds of IDAS based on an ORNL approved design; identify and select four MPOs for testing and evaluation of IDAS; develop test and evaluation plans; develop test data sets; conduct tests according to ORNL approved plans; demonstrate the first build of system to ORNL/FHWA at sponsored briefings/workshop; conduct user evaluations at three MPOs (ORNL approved) using a case study approach; enhance and improve the system based on user-evaluations; prepare technical and program documentation of IDAS; deliver distributable source and executable codes to ORNL; attend quarterly progress review meetings; and prepare a draft final report with a description of all work performed; and prepare a final report based on the ORNL's comments concerning the draft report. The anticipated duration of the project is 24 months. ORNL estimates of the level of effort is 150 person-months of professional/technical staff. The following disciplines and/or expertise are believed to be necessary for the successful completion of this project: Transportation Planning; Traffic Engineering; ITS; Computer Programming; Decision-Support Systems; Operations Research; Economic Analysis; Project Evaluations; and Geographic Information Systems. The expected release of Request for Proposals to interested organizations is June 16, 1997, closing a month thereafter. (0129)

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